AMD ROCm 7.0 Begins Rocking Out on GitHub

As a pleasant surprise waking up this morning is AMD ROCm 7.0 release tags beginning to appear on GitHub, indicating the likely imminent official release of the ROCm 7.0 compute stack as the open-source AMD Radeon/Instinct software stack aimed to be the open alternative to NVIDIA's CUDA ecosystem.

For months we have been eager for the ROCm 7.0 release with HIP C++ aligning even more closely against CUDA for better compatibility, AMD Instinct MI350x and MI355X support, performance improvements, and other features. Over the summer AMD began publishing test/preview releases of ROCm 7.0. At AMD's AI Day the official ROCm 7.0 release was talked about releasing in Q3. Here were some of the slides back from AMD's AI Day:

Well, the quarter is quickly drawing to a close and excitingly this morning ROCm 7.0 Git tags have begun appearing across the different public GitHub repositories.

rocm-7.0.0 in ROCm/hip was tagged overnight along with rocm-7.0.0 in ROCm/aomp for their AOMP compiler downstream of LLVM/Clang. There was also the rocm-7.0.0 for rocm-libraries, among others tagged overnight.

The ROCm documentation is still pointing to ROCm 6.4.3 and some of the other GitHub repositories are still having 6.4.3 as their latest tag, but with HIP, AOMP, ROCm Libraries, and others now having their 7.0.0 tags committed, it's looking like the ROCm 7.0 release dance has begun. Stay tuned.